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Oct 6, 2020 Local News
Fukuoka City To Subsidize Treatment For Recurrent Miscarriages
Beginning on October 1, 2020, Fukuoka City will subsidize treatments for recurrent miscarriages (fuikusho.) To support couples who wish to conceive children, the program pays half ...
Oct 6, 2020 Local News
Fukuoka City To Develop New Large Public Square in Tenjin
The public space consists of two sections (across the road between IMS and Tenjin Twin Bldg.) measuring 500 m2 and 300 m2, respectively. The ‘Tenjin Big Bang’ redevelopment project...
Oct 6, 2020 Local News
Saga Visitor from Tokyo on Go-To Promotion Tested Positive for COVID-19
On October 4, Saga Prefecture reported that a woman infected with the new coronavirus infection traveling from Tokyo using the national ‘Go-To’ discount program was in Saga Prefect...
Oct 5, 2020 Local News
Singapore Airlines Resumes Fukuoka Flights From November
Singapore Airlines announced the reopening of its route between Fukuoka and Singapore from November 2020. Between Nov. 5 ~ Dec. 31, the company will operate weekly return flights o...
Oct 5, 2020 Local News
Fukuoka Distilleries x International Influencers Online Event
The Kyushu Bureau of Economy is running an online shochu sampling event with international influencers and buyers. It selected four distilleries to present their products in an onl...
Oct 5, 2020 Local News
Fukuoka City To Announce School Closure On LINE
Beginning on October 1, Fukuoka City will use LINE chat system to announce school closure. Using the new service, the city directly notifies its users of information related to mun...
Oct 5, 2020 Local News
Fukuoka City LINE Account Wins 2020 Good Design Award
Fukuoka City’s official LINE account won a Good Design Award 2020. The chat-based information service, which launched in 2017, enjoys over 1.7 million registered ‘friends.’ It cont...
Oct 5, 2020 Local News
APU and PR Times Partner in Promoting Student Startups
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) and PR Times Inc. have established a partnership to promote student startups. The university has seen four student startups between 2018 a...
Oct 5, 2020 Local News
Land Prices Rise in Fukuoka for 8th Consecutive Year
Fukuoka Prefecture announced a rise in average land prices for the fiscal year of 2020. While the entire country experienced a fall in prices due to the novel coronavirus's economi...
Oct 5, 2020 Local News
New Trash Separation Rule for Companies in Fukuoka
As of October 1, 2020, updated waste separation rules take effect for offices and other commercial facilities inside Fukuoka City. In addition to conventional ‘burnable’ and ‘unbur...